1001 Albums Summary

One Night Stand- Sam Cooke Great intro track with trumpets and all Good transitions Good music, but…flat? I guess I’m more used to cinematic spruced-up production. I can appreciate this, though Great end to “don’t fight it feel it” I can feel Cookes permeating energy I don’t like it’s alright, but the end is solid Songs feel lyrically repetitive Love the energy, music is mediocre The operator Interlude on somebody have mercy sounds really good Even when it seems like he wants to let the music go quiet an build something, Cooke keeps interjecting with adlibs Overall: Lyrics-3.5 Instruments-8 Voice-7 Sound-5 Energy/vibe-9 Versatility-3

Good intro, kinda long, but I can deal with it Good cohesive musicians, not jumping all over each other like One Night Stand GREAT background music to get ready with No lyrics? Peanuts music Feels like pure background music in a kids' show Blue in Green is so depressing, I love it Looooong songs (11 minutes in the 50s???) Flamenco Sketches is dinner music fs Spotify shuffles songs after, and I couldn’t tell when John Coltrane started playing

A phenomal piece, but The Black Queen is where it falters. It's missing something to make it perfect. It's close though

I AM BIASED Alice In Chains drew from metal areas of punk like other grunge acts This album was the last before the lead singer got really addicted and struggled with drugs, and the habit eventually killed him. You can hear the beginning of pain in this album the riffs and distorted guitar is insane, it still allows for solos though Rain When I Die is beautiful, especially followed up by Down in a Hole, the lyrics are so depressing about this painful break up Down in a Hole takes the Rain When I Die and milks the emotion out of it Half way through there seems to be shift to depression rather than the stadium anthems of Them Bones Sick Man is almost like an overview of the songs before it in its transitions Rooster is written about Laynes Dad who fought in Vietnam that he failed to connect with. He cried the first time he was played the song Dirt's riff is so unbelievably nasty God Smack has an interesting opening, not particularly bad though Untitled is a great transition track Hate to Feels Outro is PEAK These might be the best lyrics so far Layne Staley’s voice is overshadowed a little, but as soon as you hear it it takes over, he’s almost as powerful Chester Bennington This is by FAR my favorite album of our series so far